Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Ramapo’s Berrie Center hosted the show “Standby, Me” in the Sharp Theater on Sept. 28. The show centers around Julie Benko, popularly known as an understudy in the theater world. But who is Benko? Maybe this is a question Benko anticipates some of the audience to be asking themselves as […]
The theater department put on a new show in the Sharp Theater that’s bound to spark some laughter and gasps. “The Wolves,” written by Sarah DeLappe and directed by theater professor Terra Vandergaw, follows multiple stories about a girls’ indoor soccer team. This is a sort of passion project for […]
When Berrie Center Director Lisa Campbell joined Ramapo in 2019, one of her highest priorities was to expand the Berrie Center’s outreach into the surrounding communities, especially those it wasn’t already directly working with. “We know that public funding of the arts in the schools has been cut radically, and […]
The theater department put on the play “F*cking A” by Suzan-Lori Parks last weekend. The play is originally based on “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 90-minute production portrays dark and serious themes mixed with a bit of foul language. Director and professor of theater Peter Campbell wrote about […]
Singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah brought Americana to the Berrie Center on Saturday as part of the annual Les Paul Festival Concert. Accompanied by her band, Kiah filled the Sharp Theater with her rich vocals and twangy guitar to honor the late Les Paul, a musical icon who hailed from Mahwah and […]
Musical productions come about once every few years at Ramapo, so when they do, the theater department goes all in. That’s certainly the case for their upcoming musical, “Ride the Cyclone,” with nearly all of the department’s faculty, students and staff involved and a slew of guest artists joining to […]
Ramapo’s Office of Specialized Services (OSS) hosted its inaugural OSS Arts Expo last Wednesday in celebration of Disability Awareness Month. The exposition took place in the Berrie Center at what used to be Curtain Call Café, but is now a free space for everything from live performances to pop-up art […]
Ramapo College’s very own student improv troupe, the Fooligans, hold two shows a month: one at 8 p.m. and another at 10 p.m. on the selected date. Each show features loose themes throughout the production, such as last year’s Five Nights at Freddy’s, Korn and Christmas. Their most recent show […]
Ramapo College’s visual arts professors look forward to retirement because, in addition to the usual benefits, they receive an opportunity to showcase their work where they once taught. On Sept. 14 at 5 p.m., Professor Shalom Gorewitz unveiled “SHALOM GOREWITZ: EXITBITION” in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries at the Berrie […]
Photo courtesy of Cat Sopko. “Everybody” is a morality play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. It is a modern adaptation of the first-ever recorded play in the English language, “Everyman.” There were a couple of changes from the original play, but the plot remains the same. The story follows Everybody, the main […]
